Fire sale

By Paretsky, Sara

Publishers Summary:
V.I. Warshawski may have left her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she learns that she cannot escape it. When V.I. takes over coaching duties of the girls' basketball team at her former high school, she faces an ill-equipped, ragtag group of gangbangers, fundamentalists, and teenage moms who inevitably draw the detective into their family woes.

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ISBN
978-0-39915-279-5
Publisher
New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, c2005.


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Reviewed on June 15, 2005

Paretsky's latest draws V.I. back to her South Chicago roots when she reluctantly agrees to coach the girls basketball team at her former high school, which is struggling with poverty, teen pregnancy, a lack of equipment, and gang influence. The old neighborhood has declined, too, and when a small local factory is sabotaged,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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